Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has secured an engineering services contract for the Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN) project, offshore Ghana.
The company will provide subsea, umbilical, risers, flowlines (SURF) engineering services to the offshore oilfields in the Deepwater Tano area, approximately 30 kilometres from the existing Jubilee field.
The contract with the project’s leader Tullow Oil also outlines WGK’s provision of project engineering resources, specialist technical support and technical assurance services across the SURF implementation work scope through to first oil.
“We are extremely pleased to be extending our business relationship with Tullow, particularly for the execution phase of this important project – we believe this is a reflection of our depth of technical experience, and strong resource base across a wide global footprint,” said Steve Wayman, chief executive of Wood Group Kenny.
“It follows on from our previous relevant experience in supporting the delivery of SURF projects across several West African countries, including Ghana, where we intend to recruit Ghanaian national graduates on an annual basis, train Ghanaian nationals as subsea engineers, thereby building up local resource capability in the subsea disciplines and to provide bursaries and work with local universities to develop subsea-specific modules on selected engineering degree courses.
“We will be focused on doing everything we can to help Tullow and its partners achieve first oil in a safe and timely fashion.”
The TEN development plan, approved by the Government of Ghana in May last year, requires the drilling and completion of up to 24 development wells, connected through subsea infrastructure to an floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, currently under construction in Singapore.
First oil is scheduled for mid-2016, and the nominal production capacity of the FPSO is 80,000 barrels of oil per day.
Tullow’s partners in the project include Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Kosmos Energy, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and PetroSA.
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